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Michel Huysseune,PhD

Assistant Professor 

Tel. +32 2 629 30 96 / Fax +32 2 629 22 78
E-mail: michel.huysseune@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Political Theory from Machiavelli to Marx
  • Nationalism, Ethnicity and Regional Conflict
  • International Politics of Development
  • Introduction to the European Union
  • The United Nations Organization and Global Governance
  • European identity, Euroskepticism and the Legitimacy Problem of the EU
  • Contemporary Political Debates

Education:

Ph.D. in Political Science - 2001
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Lic. Art History (magna cum laude) - 1984
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Lic. History (magna cum laude) - 1981
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Research Interests:
  • The Lega Nord and ethno-regionalist parties
  • Europeanization processes
  • Regions in Europe and their representations in Brussels

Select Publications:

Modernity and Secession. The Social Sciences and the Political Discourse of the Lega Nord in Italy, Oxford, Berghahn, 2006

“Nationalism and Identity Politics in International Relations” in International Relations, Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources, Unesco Encyclopedia Of Life Support Systems (Jarrod Wiener Ed.).

Bruno Coppieters, Michael Emerson, Michel Huysseune, Tamara Kovziridze, Gergana Noutcheva, Nathalie Tocci & Marius Vahl, Europeanization and Conflict Resolution. Case Studies from the European Periphery, Gent, Academia Press, 2004.

Belgium”, in: Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff (eds), Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe, London, Palgrave, 2004, pp. 45-68.

Languages:
Dutch, French, English, Italian, German and Spanish

Nationality:
Belgian